Evaluation of image quality in medical volume visualization: The state of the art

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2489, Issue , 2002, Pages 598-605

  Pommert, Andreas ^a   Höhne, Karl Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VISUALIZATION;

3-D IMAGE; EVALUATION OF IMAGE QUALITIES; MEDICAL VOLUME VISUALIZATION; STATE OF THE ART; VOLUME VISUALIZATION;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 55249126578     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45787-9_75     Document Type: Conference Paper

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